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Webflow by Example

By : Ali Rushdan Tariq
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Webflow by Example

By: Ali Rushdan Tariq

Overview of this book

Webflow is a modern no-code website-builder that enables you to rapidly design and build production-scale responsive websites. Webflow by Example is a practical, project-based, and beginner-friendly guide to understanding and using Webflow to efficiently build and launch responsive websites from scratch. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will take you through modern web development principles and help you to apply them efficiently using Webflow. You’ll also get to grips with modern responsive web development and understand how to take advantage of the power and flexibility of Webflow. The book will guide you through a real-life project where you will build a fully responsive and dynamic website from scratch. You will learn how to add animations and interactions, customize experiences for users, and more. Finally, the book covers important steps and best practices for making your website ready for production, including SEO optimization and how to publish and package the website. By the end of this Webflow book, you will have gained the skills you need to build modern responsive websites from scratch without any code.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Webflow
5
Section 2: Building a Mobile Responsive Landing Page with Webflow
11
Section 3: Building a Dynamic Website with Webflow CMS
16
Section 4: Additional Topics

Chapter 9: Getting Started with Webflow CMS

While Webflow is a tremendous tool for building custom and complex responsive static web pages, it can especially shine at building dynamic ones. From blogs to publications, portfolios to product listings, many of the websites you might have used online are dynamic. Specifically, they let administrators or users create, display, and edit the website's content on demand, depending on the nature of the website.

In this chapter, we'll provide a high-level overview of dynamic website creation and how Webflow can help us design and build one for ourselves, again without code. Specifically, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding Content Management Systems (CMSes) and their role in building dynamic content
  • Taking a closer look at Webflow's own CMS solution and how it compares to other ones
  • Getting an overview of and setting up our very own dynamic project, which we'll be building
  • Understanding...